DataFest is a two-day workshop held during J-term and developed by data practitioners and researchers from across the university. Hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the purpose of the workshop is for participants to develop skills in working with data. It is structured around the data lifecycle, includes lectures and hands-on sessions focused on data concepts, project planning and data science workflows, processing and analysis, and finally data dissemination. It is offered to faculty, post-doctorates, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff at Harvard University.

This repository contains workshop materials used in all previous editions of Harvard's DataFest.

More information on past DataFest events could be found at:

• DataFest 2018
• DataFest 2017

DataFest is organized by the following units at Harvard:

• IQSS Data Science Services
• IQSS Program on Survey Research
• HBS Research Computing Services
• FAS Research Computing
• HMS Research Computing
• HMS Data Management Working Group
• Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core
• Harvard Library
• The Center for Geographical Analysis